It is estimated that close to 10% of the U.S. population has some type of tattoo on their body and the numbers are increasing exponentially. After a few years, close to 50% of individuals want to have laser tattoo removal. There is good news for those who have a bad tattoo or are not pleased with what they have. Newer laser tattoo removal techniques are now available which can eliminate your tattoo with minimal side effects.
There are numerous types of lasers- but they all work by breaking up the pigment colors of the tattoo with a high-intensity light beam. Black tattoo pigment absorbs all laser wavelengths, making it the easiest to treat. Other colors, such as red, selectively absorb green laser light. Various colors can only be treated by selected lasers based upon the pigment color.
Tattoo removal is an old age problem and various methods have been described in the past. The majority border on techniques which are many times worse than the tattoo itself. For the past 3 decades, tattoo removal was done using unsophisticated surgical techniques, all of which left individuals with a lot of scarring and empty pockets. From ripping the skin, to scrubbing the skin with sand paper, we now have evolved through a century of chemical, mechanical, light cold and thermal methods of tattoo removal- and today the gold standard for tattoo removal is LASER.
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